Lily Allen has revealed her stalker is still contacting her, three years after his sectioning following a decade-long campaign of harassment.

Speaking on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - a podcast teaching listeners how failure can help with success and how to learn from your mistakes - the esteemed hitmaker discussed a host of issues, while also revealing her ongoing woes.

On her ordeal with Alex Gray, she said she is still being contacted and was 'gaslit' by the police: 'I got an email from him on Friday, showing he's still obsessed. The police until a couple of weeks before the trial tried to pass it off as a burglary.'

Heartache: Lily Allen has revealed her stalker is still contacting her, three years after his sectioning following a decade-long campaign of harassment

Lily set tongues wagging in September when she released her memoir My Thoughts Exactly, in which she details her infidelities to ex-husband Sam Cooper, her excessive drink and drug abuse and her devastating stillbirth.

As well as the explosive, inspiring and heartbreaking tales, the Smile hitmaker also chronicled her stalker ordeal which saw 'obsessed' Gray break into her home, leading to the star turning into a 'hermit'.

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In the chat with journalist Elizabeth, she admitted she was not satisfied with the work of police as they tried to pass off Gray's break-in as a burglary.

Lily stated: 'I was sort of gaslit by police. I can't tell you what their motivations were, but from my perspective this guy committed this horrendous crime and I believed he would do it again. In fact, I got an email from him on Friday...

Shocking: Speaking on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - a podcast teaching listeners how failure can help with success and how to learn from your mistakes - the esteemed hitmaker discussed a host of issues, while also revealing her ongoing woes

Shock: On her ordeal with Alex Gray (pictured in 2006), she said she is still being contacted and was 'gaslit' by the police: 'I got an email from him on Friday, showing he's still obsessed. The police until a couple of weeks before the trial tried to pass it off as a burglary'

Open and honest: He wrongly believed that Lily owed him millions of pounds for stealing his song lyrics and may have had a part in his father's death

'Or an email from him has appeared. Which clearly shows he is still obsessed and is no further with his mental health. The police until a couple of weeks before the trial they still tried to pass it off as a burglary'.

Gaslighting is defined as 'a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity.'

Lily shares daughters Ethel, seven, and Marnie, five with her ex-husband and was in the house with her now-ex boyfriend Meridian Dan when the break-in happened.

Paranoid schizophrenic Gray told police he planned to drive a knife into the singer's face while burgling her London flat where she and her two children were asleep.

Former love: Lily set tongues wagging in September when she released her memoir My Thoughts Exactly, in which she details her infidelities to ex-husband Sam Cooper (pictured at their 2011 wedding)

Helping hand: Lily shares daughters Ethel, seven, and Marnie, five with her ex-husband and was in the house with her now-ex boyfriend Meridian Dan (pictured in 2017) when the break-in happened

He wrongly believed that Lily owed him millions of pounds for stealing his song lyrics and may have had a part in his father's death.

She lived with a panic alarm after calling police when she saw a sign saying 'I wrote The Fear' in the audience of a show and had security shutters installed in her home, but on October 1 2015 she forgot to lock her door after opening it to place a burned pan outside.

She awoke to hear her bedroom door opening and Gray walked in yelling that she was a 'f****** bitch' in the early hours of following morning.

Gray had already taken her handbag, phone, jewellery, hard drive, keys, a glass vase and money and stashed them somewhere before returning to her room.

Shocking: The then-31-year-old, from Perth, showed no emotion as he was handed an indeterminate hospital order and restraining order for burglary and stalking

The then-31-year-old, from Perth, showed no emotion as he was handed an indeterminate hospital order and restraining order for burglary and stalking.

Sentencing, Judge Martyn Barklem said: 'This was a terrifying experience for (Lily Allen), and it was extremely fortunate there was an adult male in the property who evicted Mr Gray from it.'

In an impact statement the singer described her terror when she confronted the stalker in her bedroom and said she could no longer live in the property.

Moving on: Lily, who was not in court, penned: 'The impact of Mr Gray's actions on me and my family has been massive'

Lily, who was not in court, penned: 'The impact of Mr Gray's actions on me and my family has been massive. I had already been incredibly disturbed and upset by the letters Mr Gray sent and his contact via social media but the break-in was absolutely terrifying...

'I have had to move as a direct result of Mr Gray's actions. I couldn't live there knowing how easily he could break in and how vulnerable me and my children were.

'He is plainly delusional and obsessed and I am terrified as to what he will do next. Given his crazy obsession with me and I am really concerned about the future when Mr Gray is released.'